iTunes shut-down in Scandinavia?
p2p news / p2pnet: On Thursday we posted an item saying Norway’s Consumer Council of Norway is, "on track to win case against Apple, claiming iTunes breaches of fundamental consumer rights".
But it looks like Apple has more than just Norway to worry about.
"Apple Computer’s iTunes online music store could be shut down across Scandinavia following joint action by three Nordic nations to force it to make downloaded songs usable on all digital music players," says the Financial Times.
"Ultimately Apple can be put out of business,” Thorgeir Waterhouse, a senior adviser to the Norwegian Consumer Council, is quoted as saying.
The FT has Apple saying, "We have received a letter from the Norwegian Consumer Council and are looking into it. We’re looking forward to resolving this matter."
The story also points out that when France tried to legislate on the same matter, Apple called it, "state-sponsored piracy".
Apple’s Digital Restrictions Managagement for iTunes is C.R.A.P., as ZDNet’s David Berlind summed it up.
And yet people around the world still allow themselves to be ripped off by Apple to the iTune of $1 and up for each lossy download.
Also See:
fundamental consumer rights – Norwegian iTunes victory, June 8, 2006
Financial Times – Apple faces a new threat to iTunes music, June 9, 2006
summed it up – Apple and its C.R.A.P., March 4, 2006
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June 10th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
The utter *cheek* of Steve Jobs! Inferring that the Fifth Republic is nothing more than a bunch of thieves? Well, I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again; Mr. Jobs conquered cancer physically, but it is obvious that his soul did not survive the ordeal.
June 10th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Do I get my music from:-
- The P2P Nets where nobody gets paid
- AllOfMp3 where it’s not clear who, if anyone, gets paid
- iTunes where most of the money goes to people who sue kids and grannies with a tiny amount going to musicians so they can pay back their advance, lent to them by the same people?
June 10th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
The Nordic region is a very tricky place. It’s sort of like the Bermuda
Triangle of the music digital distribution world. Phantom X in association with Spoken X Digital Media Group lost : “Sound of Literati” out there
when it fell off the radar along with the invoices. While Steve Jobs is battling the foreign mob for control of their portable media market,
i hope he think to ask em’ have anyone seen Literati and our treasure chest of principal loot–the hell with the $0.99, we want the master uses floating with the fish. . .
June 11th, 2006 at 11:34 pm
use p2p then mail the artist a check.